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An interview with Anne Rudloff Stanton, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Anne Rudloff Stanton loves romance. She loves the way it looks, the way it sounds, and the way it smells—but only when it’s found in the margins of 14th-century books. The professor of Art History and Archaeology describes one example—a small drawing of a man leaving a woman—and she leans forward as if she were talking about a mutual friend of ours. “There’s this long sequence of the story of Moses, who, as you may not know, was married before he married Zipporah,” she begins. “He first married the daughter of the king of Ethiopia.”

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From an interview with Anne Rudloff Stanton, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology

“We’re really fortunate to have the museum, because we’re material people, and nothing can substitute for going to see the physical object.” Stanton recommends visiting the illuminated leaves of manuscripts on display at the Museum of Art and Archaeology.

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